That’s what I call taking control of your image.” set in the coming weeks—New York for a Chanel fashion show, Los Angeles for a big Burberry bash—but to hear Cara talk about the bubble, you’d think she’d already left it behind.

“I smoked a lot of pot as a teenager, but I was completely mental with or without drugs.” She saw an armada of therapists, none especially helpful.

“I thought that if I wanted to act, I’d need to finish school, but I got so I couldn’t wake up in the morning. you just feel so guilty for those feelings, and it’s this vicious circle. So you just attack yourself some more.”She dropped out, promising her parents she would find a job.

(Her parents had started her on drum lessons at age ten to help dissipate some of her inexhaustible energy.) But at fifteen, she fell into an emotional morass.

My mother’s an amazingly strong person with a huge heart, and I adore her.

But it’s not something you get better from, I don’t think.

I never cut, but I’d scratch myself to the point of bleeding.

I just wanted to dematerialize and have someone sweep me away.”She was placed on a cocktail of psychotropics—“stronger stuff than Prozac” is all she recalls.

Having made quite the impression on the hit show, she became a permanent fixture on the panel for US version of the series a year later with Simon, Paula Abdul and LA Reid, after she originally signed on to be a presenter with Steve Jones.

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